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Title: | Portrait of a union : redrawing a sketch of the whole |
Other Titles: | The future of the European Union : desmisting the debate |
Authors: | Chryssochoou, Dimitris N. |
Authors: | University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
Keywords: | Europe -- Politics and government European Union countries -- Administrative and political divisions |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Publisher: | University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
Citation: | Chryssochoou, D. N. (2020). Portrait of a union : redrawing a sketch of the whole. In M. Harwood, S. Moncada, R. Pace, (Eds.), The future of the European Union : Demisting the Debate (pp. 42-55). Msida: Institute for European Studies. |
Abstract: | This chapter looks into the current polity shape of the European Union (EU), and how it accommodates the concurrent demands for unity of the whole and diversity of the parts. In raising the question of what kind of theorizing can best capture a general image of the whole, it revisits the concept of ‘organized synarchy’ and makes the case that, despite integration’s currently unfolding crises and uncertainties, the EU ‘polity’ has managed to bring about an advanced system of collective ordered symbiosis among highly codetermined polities. It also argues that, at this stage of EU polity evolution, such a condition is not about the subordination of the parts to a superior, let alone federal, or even federalising, political centre, but rather about their preservation as distinctive, and at the same time constituent units; as partners in a late-modern ‘syspondia’ which retains its essential character as an ordered plurality of co-evolving polities. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52301 |
ISBN: | 9789918210329 |
Appears in Collections: | The future of the European Union : demisting the debate |
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